Arjuna, the protagonist, starts a war with Duryodhana for the gain of a kingdom. I think it's a bit ironical because these two characters are cousins, and they are about to waste many lives just because of them. Besides that, many of the warriors have relatives on the other side of the team. In a way, we could say that this is just a big family problem between two sides that don't agree on something. I don't really think it's very smart of them to just start killing each other until one of them wins. I mean, imagine killing one of your family members, it's just not right. And, this is exactly what Arjuna starts to notice later on, when he is in the middle of the battlefield, on a chariot with Krishna. He notices that it's a big unreasonable waste and a bit unethical to just start fighting and killing our own relatives.
According to the narration of the story until now, Arjuna is sort of the character that starts out a bit confused, but then realizes something and changes to become a character with good values. On the other hand, Duryodhana will probably turn out to be the type of character that doesn't accept some kind of truth or value, and ends up losing or failing on his quest at the end. Until now, he is thought to be the enemy of the protagonist. So, obviously someone reading this would think that Duryodhana is the "bad guy" of the story.
The story was a bit hard to understand in my opinion. I think it might have been because there were too many names, and also maybe because of the way it was written in. But, the topic seems interesting until now so I guess it's a good story to read about. Also, there probably will be some kind of moral at the end of the story (since the chapters are named "The First Teaching" and "The Second Teaching".
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